Sentence examples for ran the area from inspiring English sources

Three Artuqid dynasties ran the area.

"The guerrillas, for years, ran the area and they were the ones who made the rules," said Bishop Jaime Prieto, who has lobbied for the demilitarized zone from his base in a regional city, Barrancabermeja.

From the volley of exchanges between the judges and the officials, and an impassioned account by a prominent lawyer before the court of the terror in Swat, it became clear that the Taliban ran the area with impunity.

A founding member of Hezbollah, he served as a commander in the Bekaa region during the 1980's, when the militia effectively ran the area, enforcing a strictly puritanical Islamic social code.

His parents, Kenneth and Vera, ran the area's first betting shop.

And in Utah, members of the Salt Lake City chapter of the NAACP argued against changing the name of "Negro Bill Canyon" to "Grandstaff Canyon," to honor the black cattle rancher who ran the area by his name rather than a potentially racist nickname.

None of the seven district officials who used to run the area have come back.

Because he comes from a family of local notables, Shah has been entrusted with running the area's police program.